macropodn.adj.

1874 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 164 792 The two lobes of the molar..are not separated by so deep a valley, and this lodges a greater proportion of hard enamel in the form of irregular subundulate ridges,..the chief of which may..be homologized with the mid link of more normal Macropods.

1981 Observer 15 Feb. 16/9 Several of the larger species of macropods, generally referred to as kangaroos, are probably more abundant now than ever before.

1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint i. 73 The pouched macropods..flourished undisturbed on their drifting fragment of the mother-continent Gondwana.

1890 Cent. Dict. Macropod, having long or large feet or legs.

1948 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 91 251/1 The normal macropod tail is thick at the base, tapered towards the tip.

1971 World Archaeol. 3 174 The usually large amounts of butchered kangaroo and other macropod bones in the excavations suggest a greater degree of localized success in hunting.

1979 Mammalia 43 231 In contrast to eutherians, macropod marsupials tend to have low body temperatures..and low voluntary food intake.

1986 Exper. Brain Res. 62 648/1 A group of lamellated corpuscles are present in the interosseous region of the legs of macropod marsupials.